Nick Donlan

Partner
FINANCE PRACTICE

With a focus on CFO searches for private equity-backed software companies, Nick has placed operational CFOs who’ve driven exceptional outcomes on behalf of top sponsors including Thoma Bravo, Francisco Partners, and TA Associates. Nick has also been an integral part in building out executive teams at Quest, Imperva, Instructure, Insurity, Paycor, ABC Fitness, MeridianLink, Quorum Software, Redwood Software, and others.

During his 10+ years at Bespoke’s Austin office, Nick has orchestrated successful placements of high-impact executives for a wide spectrum of clients, from growth-oriented, pre-IPO companies to buyouts to complex carveouts and turnaround situations. He has experience placing executives in pre-IPO and recently public SaaS companies, including nCino, Paycor, Duck Creek, and Pluralsight.

Prior to joining the Bespoke team in 2016, Nick worked at GLG, where he supported private equity and venture capital firms in deal origination and due diligence efforts.

Nick graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Government and competed for the College’s policy debate team.

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Debate tournaments attended

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Marathons completed

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Flannel shirts owned

Katelyn Quaresma

PARTNER
FINANCE PRACTICE

Katelyn successfully leads our CFO practice and has placed executives across the C-Suite at numerous public and private equity backed companies.  With a focus on the finance function, she has worked with notable firms like Thoma Bravo, Clearlake, TA Associates, Apax, and others in solving critical search needs, resulting in successful placements.

Katelyn has been with Bespoke Partners since 2015 and has conducted successful searches at companies such as: ECI, BeyondTrust/Bomgar,  MyCase, Brightly, Medallia, QAD, Mailgun, Government Brands, WebPT, Imprivata, Pluralsight and many more. She has led more than 250 successful CFO searches during her time at Bespoke, driving over 15 company exits exceeding $20 billion. She has reach; Katelyn has orchestrated successful placements of high-impact executives for a wide spectrum of clients, including growth oriented, buyout stage, IPO Public carveouts and turnarounds, among many more.

Before finishing Law School (Magna Cum Laude) in San Diego, Katelyn graduated with her BA in Psychology from California State University Long Beach, where she was a Division I athlete, playing soccer for the 49ers.

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Number of dairy cattle on our family farm in Northern California

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# of inches of rain compounded by 20mph headwinds and 29* weather at the 2018 Boston Marathon- finishing time 3:35

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Years played DI soccer for Long Beach State

Matt Sharrers

Board of Directors

Matt Sharrers is Executive Chairman and former CEO of SBI, a strategy consulting firm specializing in B2B revenue growth. Matt is focused on helping clients improve the enterprise value of their companies by driving commercial excellence across the core facets of customer experience, pricing, marketing, and sales. Forbes recognizes SBI as one of America’s Most Admired Management Consulting Firms for the last four years in a row.

Since joining SBI as the first employee, Matt was instrumental in guiding the firm as the Senior Partner. Matt’s functional responsibilities included leading the firm’s first CRO and CEO practices, co leading the TMT practice and starting SBI’s Private Equity Practice in 2011. As Senior Partner Matt led SBI’s double-digit revenue growth and was responsible for the hiring function which built SBI’s team of revenue generation experts.

Prior to joining SBI Matt spent eleven years leading sales and marketing teams as a Vice President of Sales. Matt has “lived in the field.” As a result, he is the foremost expert in the art of separating fact from fiction as it relates to revenue growth best practices. CEOs and Private equity investors turn to Matt’s team at SBI when they need to unlock trapped growth inside of their companies.

Past Experience
SBI – CEO, Senior Partner, Private Equity Co Practice Lead
SBI- TMT Practice Lead
Cintas Corporation – Vice President of Sales
Professional Hockey player – member of the Canadian National Hockey Team

Eric Walczykowski

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Eric is passionate about building high-performing teams that value doing their best, working together, overcoming adversity and learning.

As a proven growth executive, Eric has served as CEO, President, Board Member, Investor and Advisor for technology companies that achieved over $4.5B in successful exits.

Eric brings to Bespoke Partners significant professional services experience from Deloitte and Andersen, as well as the high-growth client executive perspective for private equity-backed technology companies.

Eric earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS in Business from Fresno State University.

Outside of work, Eric enjoys spending time with family, coaching baseball, travel, attending live events and sipping good wine.

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Years courting my high school sweetheart and wife Colleen

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Years teaching and training Bok Fu Do (Kenpo Karate) with my children Taylor, Devon and Jordan

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Athletes attending Stanford University to play baseball that I had the privilege of coaching

Kristie Nova

Founding Partner
CEO PRACTICE

Energetic, creative, driven, and fashionable are just a few adjectives describing Bespoke Partners’ Founder, Kristie Nova. With an unmatched determination to exceed client expectations, Kristie has a refined sense in matching exceptional talent with extraordinary opportunities.

With 25+ years of executive search experience, Kristie founded Bespoke Partners in 2011 with one private equity client and not even a handful of employees. Through Kristie’s tireless efforts in recruiting, business development, and mentoring her team, Bespoke now partners with the world’s most successful private equity firms.

Previously, Kristie was a Partner at Lancer Group where she and the Founding Partner successfully built out the firm’s private equity practice. Kristie started her career at A.T. Kearney Executive Search and received a B.S. in Business Administration and Finance from the University of San Diego.

When taking a brief respite from connecting top talent to Bespoke clients, Kristie loves spending time with her four highly energetic and vocal children.

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Based on Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule, the age I will be when I obtain a 6.0 rating in tennis and will be ready to compete at Wimbledon

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Turkeys procured in 2021 as pets (never Thanksgiving dinner) — introducing the stoic Mr. Giblets and ever demure Lady Godiva  

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Population of Three Forks, Montana where I spent the majority of my youth